alt Hacker News>>1 US liquid quart is about 946.353 milliliters.
Why not just say 1 litre and have the same limit as the rest of the world.
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mendelmaleh • today at 1:57 PM
Because we have quart-sized ziplock bags here, liter bags not so much.
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The surface level answer is "for Ronald Reagan reasons":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act